Liquor Charge Against Golf Club Dismissed
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Finding that it had not been established by the prosecution that there had been a sale of liquor, Mi' J. D. Willis, S.M., today dismissed the charge against Thomas William Wight, secretary and professional of the Otago Golf Club, of selling liquor without a licence.
The charge was laid following a raid by the police on the club-house on September 18. In giving his reserved judgment, the Magistrate said the relevant section of the Licensing Act held three essentials —there must be proof of sale, there must be proof of sale of liquor, and there must be proof of sale of liquor by the defendant. “In this case the information must be dismissed, because it obviously breaks down on the requirement that there had been a sale of liquor,” said Mi' Willis, in referring to the submissions of counsel that it had not been proved that the liquid found by the police in the bottles and’’glasses at the club house was alcoholic*liquor. “Although a man of the world might have his opinion, the law cannot act on presumption of suspicion as to what was in the bottles,” he said.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1948, Page 7
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